 Great ideas originate in the muscles. |
| The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. |
| Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. |
| I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. |
| Discontent is the first necessity of progress. |
| Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. |
| The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. |
| There is far more opportunity than there is ability. |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
| What you are will show in what you do. |
| His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. |
| Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! |
| Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. |
| Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
| To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. |
| One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. |
| When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. |
| The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. |
